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Valuing Labour in Greco-Roman Antiquity
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Edited by:
Miko Flohr
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2024
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How did ancient Greeks and Romans regard work? It has long been assumed that elite thinkers disparaged physical work, and that working people rarely commented on their own labors. The papers in this volume challenge these notions by investigating philosophical, literary and working people’s own ideas about what it meant to work. From Plato’s terminology of labor to Roman prostitutes’ self-proclaimed pride in their work, these chapters find ancient people assigning value to multiple different kinds of work, and many different concepts of labor.
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eBook published on:
March 11, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9789004694965
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Main content:
424
eBook ISBN:
9789004694965
Keywords for this book
history of work; labor history; ancient professions; ancient artisans; Greek archaeology; Roman archaeology; ancient economy; Roman art history; Greek art history; ancient agriculture; ancient philosophy; ancient medicine
Audience(s) for this book
Libraries, specialists, graduate students, advanced undergraduates in classics, ancient history, archaeology and art history.
